A defensive leader spends their time trying to prevent the company from getting hurt.
They cut expenses, are conservative marketers, fight with customers and employees for pennies, and won’t try unproven things for fear of failure. They find themselves defending a smaller and smaller company.
With this kind of thinking – they either shouldn’t be the leader or be someone who compliments a leader who is in charge and on the offense.
You have to score. You can’t win a game with the strongest defense alone – can you?
Certainly not. A very important lesson in our current economy, for sure!
And I think you mean “complements.”